Dataset
RentSmart
RentSmart Boston compiles data from BOS:311 and the City's Inspectional Services Division to give prospective tenants a more complete picture of the homes and apartments they are considering renting, assisting them in understanding any previous issues with the property, including: housing…
Dataset
- Publisher
- DoIT Data & Analytics
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 13
- Keywords
- 311, housing, inspectional services, property, rent, renters, rentsmart, tenants, violations
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/rentsmart
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | unavailable | 66572723 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 591652637 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 1672482519 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 1635984834 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 1640759925 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 3837230677 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 722884527 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 412822954 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 334038036 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 913447518 | — | source |
| CSV | unavailable | 3889593232 | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 919503 | a96b8285b072f7ce2de68131cadb7d792c31f275524f6993a8e51f04cd6a266b | source |
| CSV | referenced | 68745 | 928253d7378d3669879530aa086422ef78b3624466339e96b3981cac233eb12e | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
date | text | |
violation_type | text | |
description | text | |
address | text | |
neighborhood | text | |
zip_code | text | |
parcel | text | |
owner | text | |
year_built | text | |
year_remodeled | text | |
property_type | text | |
latitude | text | |
longitude | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:rentsmart
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/rentsmart
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/rentsmart.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- rentsmart
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |